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Over 100 years after its original publication, The Railway Children is still one of Edith Nesbit's most beloved and delightful stories. Roberta, Peter, and Phyllis were very happy living in a comfortable house surrounded by a cook and servants and two loving parents, until one evening when there was a knock at the door and their father was mysteriously taken away by two men. Suddenly alone, their mother moves the family to a small cottage in the countryside....
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"U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland, spearheading a stage line from Gallup to the Colorado River. It will lay out the territory for new settlements, and, be a boon to Navajo trading posts. Unfortunately, it's not Gerald Hall's idea of progress. The mysterious Texas gambler has hired three -- and counting -- kill-crazy assassins to bury Chet under a storm of bullets. To turn the tables on him,...
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McFarland & Company
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[2005]
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"This annotated bibliography lists and discusses works from the 1840s to the 21st century. It provides entries on 956 fiction works. An introduction discusses the history of railroad fiction and common themes such as strikes, innovations, hoboes and rail heroes. An appendix organizes entries by decade of publication, and the work is indexed by subject and title"--Provided by publisher.
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"Briar Creek Library director Lindsey Norris and her husband, Sully, are at a popular library conference in Chicago to hear book restoration specialist Brooklyn Wainwright give a keynote address. After the lecture, Lindsey looks under her seat and finds a tote bag containing a first edition of Patricia Highsmith's Strangers on a Train, inscribed to Alfred Hitchcock. Brooklyn determines the novel is one of a kind and quite valuable, so Lindsey and...
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When their father is sent away to prison, three London children move to the country where they keep busy preventing accidents on the nearby railway, making many new friends, and generally learning a good deal about themselves.
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"Everything has a price...Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything--or anyone--is his for the asking. It should be simple to find the perfect wife--and from his first glimpse of Lady Cassandra Ravenel, he's determined to have her. But the beautiful and quick-witted Cassandra is equally determined to marry for love--the one thing he can't give. Everything except her... Severin is...
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"Scottish cattleman Duff MacCallister staked a claim for his life in America-and reserves a righteous anger for those who break the law in this smoking six-gun shootout from national bestselling authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone... Thanks to a new line, the railroad has come to Chugwater, Wyoming, bridging the gap between the small town and the larger city of Cheyenne. Now Duff MacCallister can transport his black angus cattle herd with ease by...
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Where’s The Thunder, There’s Fire…
Higbee Colorado, population 147, is booming. A visionary named Garrison Wade is building a railroad to connect Higbee to the Santa Fe. But a family named Clinton has its own selfish reasons for making sure these bands of steel go nowhere—and they’ve brought in a ruthless killer to derail Wade’s plan…
Falcon MacCallister owes a debt to the would-be railroad man Wade—and
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Celebrate the 90th anniversary of The Little Engine That Could with this all-time classic reillustrated by Caldecott Award-winning artist Dan Santat!
The kindness and determination of the Little Blue Engine have inspired millions of children around the world since the story was first published in 1930. Cherished by readers for ninety years, The Little Engine That Could is a classic tale of a little engine that, despite her size, triumphantly pulls...
12) Bullet train
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The Overlook Press
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Lady Bird, an unlucky assassin, is tasked with grabbing a suitcase from a bullet train from Tokyo to Morioka and exiting at the next stop, but doesn't realize other dangerous passengers are trying to do the same.
A dark, satirical thriller by the bestselling Japanese author, following the perilous train ride of five highly motivated assassins--soon to be a major film from Sony. Nanao, nicknamed Lady Bird--the self-proclaimed "unluckiest assassin...
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Jewels of Kalispell volume 2
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"Eleanor Briggs travels to Kalispell, Montana, with her conservationist father to discuss the formation of Glacier National Park, and sparks fly when she meets Carter Brunswick, despite their differences. As the town fights to keep the railroad, the dangers Eleanor and Carter face will change the course of their lives" --
14) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
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Scholastic
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In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
15) Night train
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Roaring Brook Press
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[2002]
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Rhyming text presents a nighttime train ride through the countryside, with lightning on the tracks, rattling cars, and the welcoming lights of the station at the end of the journey.
17) Shortcut
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Children taking a shortcut by walking along a railroad track find excitement and danger when a train approaches.